Google IO Announcements Day 2 Chrome Hardware & Software

Chrome for iOS! Works all the same as Chrome for all other operating systems.
More on Google Drive, available now for iOS. Google docs now works offline, when back online it will sync back to the cloud. Faxing can now comes thru your Google voice number, Using Hello Fax.
The new Chrome OS hardware, can now be bought in Best Buy stores. WebGL 3D Gaming for Chrome OS, like Bullet Storm a FPS Alien shooter. A interactive Cirque du Soleil using, CSS, Html 5. Looks like Chrome got more beefer! Want to watch the entire keynote day 2, it below:

Google IO Announcements Day 1 Android Hardware & Software

New version of Android version 4.1 (Jellybean), Features:

Project Butter - Vsync, triple buffering, more touch response, these will work well with the new multi-core arm processors. Auto adjustment widgets , offline voice typing, this will work in airplane mode! Gesture mode for blind users, new camera features, like pinch and slide, easy delete undo.
More notification features, gmail working in the bar, quick responses to users, social & internet radio from the notification bar, news headlines.

Search feature called google now, show info you looking for in a info card, which this works with improved voice search, google now has new traffic, and bus route features, shows you directions for new appointments, sports stats, flight stats, accessing google now swipe up from bottom of screen or tap on search box. You can now check in & book a tables at restaurants. Jelly bean Android 4.1 sdk out now, open source code out mid-july.

 The New Hardware Google for Android:

Android training for development comes online, Smart app update for smaller app updates, app encryption, Google cloud messaging. Google play will now have magazines, with 14 day trials.

 They now have there own tablet, Nexus 7, made by Asus. Quad-core"16 core cpu", front facing camera, 300hrs stand by times, 9hrs of video play, Tegra 3, 1280x800 HD display, this is a 7 inch tablet. has a whats this song widget, the standard browser with be chrome. internal street view like features inside buildings, also using compass mode. This will be available today, starting at $199, For a limited time, includes $25 of credit for the Google play store, as well as some great free content like your own copy of Transformers: Dark of the Moon and you can buy it here.

The Nexus Q, it is a media streamer, for YouTube, Music , with 1080p video, nfc, and bluetooth.
It has wireless music zones, it can be controlled from a phone or tablet. your friends can add there own songs, like a jukebox by there devices they been with them. Your cloud media on your device can be sent to the Nexus Q to your TV. It will cost $299 and will comes out mid-july. again you can it here.

For Google+ now has events, with party mode, new themes, live slideshows. More on Project glass,
they showed bass jumping out of a blimp to demo the glasses live!, while you Google+ hangouts, they landed on the roof. Just used the glasses from a bike jumping to the roof , while doing a flip in mid air, then repelled down the building, then rode a bike up to the stage of the event, live! The developers can pre-order the glasses only from the Google IO event, for $1500. If you want to watch the entire event for day one its below:

PC Blindfolded System Build if you missed it live

 Here is the PC Per podcast, which is a computer related & hardware podcast, of demos & reviews blindfolded PC build video if you missed it live:

You can win this pc, watch video for details

6/23 @ 11am PDT / 2pm EDT Blindfolded PC Build (seriously)

For charity watch Ryan shrout build a pc blindfolded live
the times are


6/23 @ 11am PDT / 2pm EDT

here - http://pcper.com/live

Spotify Pandora like service for free

Spotify takes on Pandora with unlimited free radio for iOS users in the US | The Verge

Mozilla creates Firefox browser for tablets

Here's a video on discussing about the look on the Firefox browser on ios, and other tablets.

Comcast bugs tv customer

Comcast installs roach-infested cable box, customer claims Note: this was in January of this year, but just wanted to post this anyway!

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-573523...

An Illinois resident asserts that after Comcast installed a cable box, cockroaches crawled out of it. This follows a lawsuit by employees who claim they are forced to install roach-infested boxes. Read this blog post by Chris Matyszczyk on Technically Incorrect.

Microsoft announces surface tablets

Microsoft surface tablets, with keyboard cover and a back built in kick stand.

Credit - Microsoft

 

 Has 16:9 screen , they have two models check more at Surface by Microsoft

Draw something tv?!

Yup, draw something will be a tv show on CBS produced by Ryan seacrest, uhhhh ok!

“Each week, teams of celebrities and everyday users will test their skills in front of a studio audience to earn money and big laughs. Viewers can also play along at home for a chance to win prizes and compete with the celebrities.”

Vizio coming out with clean & sleek PCs

Vizio Aims To Stand Out in Laptop Market With Clean Software and Design - ABC News

New retina displays vs the web

The new apple products that use retina on the mac book pro & iPad 3rd have such high resolutions that images on the web look horrible so web designers may have redesign the web. Below is some of the info about looking into changing or detecting this from brandbuildercompany.com.....

Presently, the CSS media queries that are useful in responsive web design make it very simple to target background images that you would like to optimize. That’s all well and good, but what about images that are part of your content such as your logo? There is no good solution. What can you do:
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Use JavaScript to detect retina:
Pro: Easy to automate.
Con: Modern web browsers will have already started to download the first image before you can detect if it is a retina quality device and replaced it.
Server side detection:
Pro: Only load one image.
Con: Many large websites serve their static content through Content Delivery Networks (CDN). A CDN is a network of servers located across the globe that will serve the file from the closest server to a user.  These servers are dumb and do not do server-side processing. Additionally, if a user saves the website on one device and transfers it to another they may see the wrong type of image.
Just serve retina:
Pro: No fuss
Con: Wasted bandwidth, higher load time, and the higher quality images will actually seem worse on low DPI devices.
Empty src element and CSS generated content:
Pro: Only loads one image, works in WebKit browsers (Chrome, Safari, iOS browsers, most Android browsers, BlackBerry browsers), and Opera. This covers most mobile users
Con: Does not work in Firefox nor IE, desktop or mobile versions (this is actually by design in Firefox). It fundamentally goes against everything web designers have advocated for years, and cannot be done inline so it requires extra configuration that is very clumsy.        

Big secret Microsoft announcement monday

Seems Microsoft may announce a Xbox / entertainment tablet Monday

Alot of free public domain & indie movies to watch from open culture

500 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir at  Open Culture

I'm back again, Welcome new facebook users

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